Whats Behind the Cloud, and Why is it Important?
What’s Behind the Cloud, and Why is that Important? Cloud Computing has been one of the most profoundly evolutionary advances for tech spaces around the world. Among other things, it allows firms to reach new levels of productivity, efficiency and has birthed new...
Three Steps To A Successful IBM Cognos Upgrade
Three Steps to a Successful IBM Cognos Upgrade Priceless advice for the executive managing an upgrade Recently, we thought our kitchen needed updating. First we hired an architect to draw up plans. With a plan in hand, we discussed the specifics: What is the scope?...
MotioCI Tips And Tricks
MotioCI Tips and Tricks The favorite features of those who bring you MotioCI We asked Motio’s developers, software engineers, support specialists, implementation team, QA testers, sales and management what their favorite features of MotioCI are. We asked them to...
MotioCI Purpose-Built Reports
MotioCI Reporting Reports Designed with a Purpose - To Help Answer the Specific Questions Users Have Background All of the MotioCI reports were recently redesigned with one goal in mind -- each report should be able to answer a specific question or questions that a...
Cognos Deployment Proven Practices
How to make the most of MotioCI in supporting proven practices MotioCI has integrated plugins for Cognos Analytics report authoring. You lock the report that you’re working on. Then, when you’re done with your editing session, you check it in and include a comment...
5 Hidden Costs Of The Cloud
When organizations budget expenses related to a new implementation of cloud services for their organization, they often fail to accurately estimate hidden expenses associated with the setup and maintenance of data and services in the cloud. Knowledge...
CI For Qlik Sense
Agile Workflow for Qlik Sense Motio has been leading the adoption of Continuous Integration for agile development of Analytics and Business Intelligence for over 15 years. Continuous Integration[1]is a methodology borrowed from the software development industry...
Is AI Smarter than a Five-Year-Old?
As it turns out, yes, but just barely AI is ubiquitous. One of the most common places for AI in the home these days is the smartphone, smart homes and appliances. Recently, as we sat down to dinner, we had a conversation with Alexa that went something like this:...
Motio, Inc. Delivers Real-Time Version Control for the Cognos Analytics Cloud
PLANO, Texas – 22 September 2022 - Motio, Inc., the software company that helps you sustain your analytics advantage by making your business intelligence and analytics software better, today announced all its MotioCI applications now fully support the Cognos...
Hallmarks Of A Data-Driven Organization
Hallmarks of a Data-Driven Organization Questions businesses and candidates should ask to assess the data culture Courting the Right Fit When you’re job hunting, you bring a set of skills and experiences. The prospective employer is evaluating whether you...
How To Tell Your Boss They’re Wrong (With Data Of Course)
How do you tell your boss they're wrong? Sooner or later, you’re going to disagree with your manager. Imagine that you’re in a “data driven” company. It has 3 or 4 analytics tools so it can put the right tool on the problem. But, the weird thing is that your...
Analytics Lie
Analytics Lie The Bias of Analysis Mark Twain debatably said something like, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and analytics.” We take for granted that analytics gives us useful, actionable insights. What we often don’t realize is how our...
You Want Data Quality, But You’re Not Using Quality Data
Teasers When did we first see data? Mid-twentieth century As a successor to the Vulcan, Spock 18,000 BC Who knows? As far back as we can go in discovered history we find humans using data. Interestingly, data even precedes written numbers. Some of the earliest...
Spreading Misinformation With Terrible Dashboards
How you Spread Misinformation with Terrible Dashboards Numbers by themselves are hard to read, and even harder to draw meaningful inferences from. It’s often the case that visualizing the data in the forms of various graphics and charts is necessary...
Are You Audit Ready?
Are you Audit-Ready? Authors: Ki James and John Boyer When you first read the title of this article, you probably shuddered and immediately thought of your financial audit. Those may be scary, but what about compliance audits? Are you prepared for a...
Is There A Hole In Your Sox? (Compliance)
Analytics and Sarbanes-Oxley Managing SOX compliance with self-service BI tools like Qlik, Tableau and PowerBI Next year SOX will be old enough to buy beer in Texas. It was birthed out of the “Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act”,...
You “Musk” Return Back To Work – Are You Ready?
What Employers Need to do to Welcome Their Workers Back to the Office After nearly 2 years of working from home, some things just won’t be the same. In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, many businesses shut the doors on their brick-and-mortar and asked...
The Dream of a Single Analytics Tool is Dead!
The Dream of a Single Analytics Tool is Dead! There’s a persistent belief among business owners that an entire firm needs to operate on a single business intelligence tool, be it Cognos Analytics, Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, or anything else. This belief has...
Why Multiple BI Tools Matter
Why Multiple BI Tools Matter And the underlying challenges in making it work There are 20 vendors ranked in Gartner’s 2022 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. Over the past 10 or 15 years we’ve watched the pendulum swing as...
The Benefits of Sharing a Single Roof
Cognos Analytics and Planning Analytics Under the Same Roof IBM has just announced that Cognos Analytics and Planning Analytics are now under one roof. We have one question – What took them so long? There are a number of obvious benefits to integrating...
Feral Information Systems
They’re wild and they’re rampant! I previously wrote about shadow IT here. In that article we discuss its prevalence, its danger and how to manage it. I had no idea that Feral Information Systems (FIS) were a thing. Feral cats I had heard of. We actually...
12 Reasons for Failure In Analytics And Business Intelligence
12 Reasons for Failure In Analytics And Business Intelligence Number 9 may surprise you In analytics and business intelligence, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. We are, after all, looking for the single version of the truth. Whether it's a...
Shadow IT: Balancing The Risks And Benefits Every Organization Faces
Shadow IT: Balancing the Risks and Benefits Every Organization Faces Abstract Self-service reporting is the promised land of the day. Whether it's Tableau, Cognos Analytics, Qlik Sense, or another analytics tool, all vendors seem to be promoting...
10 Things The C-Suite Needs To Know About Analytics
10 Things the C-Suite Needs to Know about Analytics If you haven’t traveled much lately, here’s an executive summary of developments in the field of analytics that you might have missed in the airline seatback magazine. It’s not called Decision Support...
Motio’s Cloud Experience
What Your Company Can Learn From Motio’s Cloud Experience If your company is like Motio, you already have some data or applications in the cloud. Motio moved its first application to the cloud around 2008. Since that time, we’d added additional applications as...
What Does Watson Do?
Abstract IBM Cognos Analytics has been tattooed with the Watson name in version 11.2.1. His full name is now IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson 11.2.1, formerly known as IBM Cognos Analytics. But where exactly is this Watson and what does it do? In...
Exporting and Importing Security rules – Qlik Sense to Git
Exporting and Importing Security rules - Qlik Sense to Git This article is intended as a guide for those who are faced with the situation of figuring out who caused a disaster by editing the Security Rules in Qlik Sense and how to roll back to the last...
Cloud Prep
Preparing To Move To The Cloud We are now in the second decade of cloud adoption. As many as 92% of businesses are using cloud computing to some degree. The pandemic has been a recent driver for organizations to adopt cloud technologies. Successfully...
60-80% of Fortune 500 Companies will Adopt Amazon QuickSight by 2024
That’s a bold statement, sure, but in our analysis, QuickSight has all of the qualities to increase market penetration. QuickSight was introduced by Amazon in 2015 as an entrant in the business intelligence, analytics and visualization space. It first appeared in...
5 Reasons To Consider Dynamic Query Mode
5 Reasons To Consider Dynamic Query Mode While there are multiple incentives for Cognos Analytics users to convert from Compatible Query Mode to Dynamic Query Mode, here are our top 5 reasons we think you should consider DQM. Interested in...
7 Benefits Of The Cloud
7 Benefits Of The Cloud If you've been living off the grid, disconnected from the urban infrastructure, you may not have heard of the cloud thing. With a connected home, you can set up security cameras around the house and it will save motion-activated...
Fighting the COVID-19 Virus with Data
Disclaimer Don’t skip this paragraph. I hesitate to wade into these contentious, often political waters, but a thought came to me while I was walking my dog, Demic. I earned an M.D. and have been in some form of healthcare or consulting since. Over the...
Do You Know the Cognos Upgrade Best Practices?
Over the years Motio, Inc. has developed "Best Practices" surrounding a Cognos upgrade. We created these by conducting over 500 implementations and listening to what our customers had to say. If you are one of the more than 600 individuals who attended one of our...
Motio, Inc. Acquires Gitoqlok
Motio, Inc. Acquires Gitoqlok Bringing Together Strong Version Control Without Technical Complexities PLANO, Texas – 13 October 2021 - Motio, Inc., the software company that helps you sustain your analytics advantage by making your business intelligence and...
So You’ve Decided to Upgrade Cognos…Now What?
If you’re a long time Motio follower, you’ll know that we are no strangers to Cognos upgrades. (If you’re new to Motio, welcome! We’re happy to have you) We’ve been called the “Chip & Joanna Gains” of Cognos Upgrades. Okay that last sentence is an exaggeration,...
Have No Fear, An Easy Cognos Upgrade Is Here
The team at CoBank relies on Cognos for its operational reporting and main financial reporting system. Keeping Cognos upgraded allows them to maintain integration with their other BI tools and systems. The team consists of 600 business users with a handful developing their own reports in the “My Content” space.
Cognos Performance Optimization Infographic
Let's cut to the chase. Cognos performance is something you probably don't think about until it's too late. We surveyed IBM Cognos Analytics users about their performance methodologies and compiled the findings into an infographic. Here's what we found:You don't...
Cognos Auditing Blog – Tips and Tricks for Large & High Volume Environments
A blog by John Boyer and Mike Norris. Introduction It is important to have the Cognos Auditing capability working to know and understand how Cognos is being used by your user community and help answer questions like: Who is using the system? What reports are they...
Baker Tilly Trusts Soterre with Audits
Financial Firm Built on Trust Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax, and assurance firm dedicated to building long-lasting relationships with its clients. Its mission is to protect its client’s value in an ever-changing world. The company emphasizes building trust...
Persona IQ Securely Migrates HealthPort’s Cognos Authentication
Since 2006, HealthPort has made heavy use of IBM Cognos to provide actionable insight into the operational and strategic decisions at all levels of the company. As a company at the forefront of HIPAA compliance, security is always a key concern. “One of our recent initiatives has been to consolidate the authentication of multiple existing applications against a common, tightly controlled Active Directory infrastructure,”
Telus Increases Speed and Efficiency of Cognos Releases
TELUS, a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, had a strong desire to accelerate the growth and performance of their IBM Cognos environments. However, they had hundreds of report...
CIRA Chooses MotioCI To Achieve Agile Business Intelligence
The Business Intelligence (BI) team at CIRA uses an agile approach to develop and deliver information to their lines of business. Implementing MotioCI has supported their shift to an agile methodology, enabling CIRA to rapidly push time-sensitive data to its business users. MotioCI has increased the efficiency of the CIRA BI development process and decreased the amount of time required to troubleshoot issues.
MotioCI Enables Agile and Self-Service BI at IBM
MotioCI enabled IBM business teams to manage their own content deployments while providing governance.By automating many of the manual administration and support tasks, IBM was able to reduce these costs significantly with MotioCI.IBM Leverages Motio to Save Money...
Catlin Insurance Group Improves BI Management & Control with MotioCI
Reduced time spent on development and release to production. Enabled governance and control while providing autonomy and self-service. Allowed control over data quality and performance monitoring Improved business user experience with less errors getting passed to...
MotioCI Testing Ensures Accurate and Consistent Data at Ameripath
By providing visibility into “who’s changing what," MotioCI enabled Ameripath to quickly identify root causes of issues and led to much quicker identification and resolution of issues, increasing both productivity and quality.Ameripath’s BI Challenges Ameripath has...
MotioCI Saves Corrupted IBM Cognos Content Store at DaVita HealthCare
With the importance of keeping patient data secure, DaVita’s security configuration is a top priority. MotioCI deploys security and configuration settings between environments. This eliminates manually re-creating security configuration settings, which would leave...
Providence St. Joseph Health Achieves BI Development Standardization with MotioCI
With MotioCI, Providence St. Joseph Health achieved its standardization and control requirements over report development. This improved their efficiency & consistency in getting accurate data in the hands of its user base.Eliminated broken reports, bad data,...
CU Saves Time and Money on Debugging with MotioCI
The University of Colorado had a complex BI ecosystem that encountered lots of changes to the environments, and lacked visibility and automation in its deployment and testing methods. CU was spending tens of thousands of dollars, per event, to discover and fix...
Analytics in Retail: Is the Data Correct?
Retail is one of the top industries being transformed by AI and Analytics technology. Retail marketers need to involve segmentation, separation, and the profiling of diverse groups of consumers while keeping up with ever-evolving trends in fashion. Category...
Texas Tech University Safeguards Cognos BI Content with MotioCI
Texas Tech University realized the importance of version control in their BI environment when an unfortunate event happened- reports got deleted and the only way to recover them was to restore their entire content store. Unfortunately this content store restoration...
MotioCI 3.2.8 – The Latest Release
MotioCI 3.2.8 is live, and we will be giving you a run down of the newest benefits to you- the end user! Multi-page HTML has been added as an output type for testing. With this, MotioCI can better approximate how users consume reports — one page at a time. Reports...